Ana Lucia Varbanescu

Ana Lucia Varbanescu holds BSc and MSc degrees from the Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania. She obtained her PhD from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and continued to work there as a postdoctoral researcher and at the Vrije University (VU) in Amsterdam. Ana is a MacGillavry fellow at the University of Amsterdam, where she was tenured in 2018 as an associate professor. She has also been a professor at the University of Twente since 2022. Ana has been a visiting researcher at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA (2006, 2007), the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain (2007), NVIDIA (2009) and Imperial College London, UK (2013). Ana has received several grants from the Dutch Research Council (NWO), including a Veni grant, and she is co-principal investigar for the GraphMassivizer EU project.

Ana’s research stems from high-performance computing (HPC) and investigates the use of heterogeneous architectures for HPC, with a special focus on performance and energy efficiency modelling for both scientific and irregular data-intensive applications. Her latest research focuses on zero-waste computing and systems co-design.